Looking at this SPD advertisement for the upcoming regional election, I’m thinking the American administration may have finally found their master in reductionist political communication…

Speaking of political communication, in the coming weeks, I will present you, my gentle readers, with a couple of outstanding examples thereof…

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Ring out the old, ring in the… old? Doesn’t he look a little like he had a hunch?

Besides, “Die Partei” clearly knows best how to protect expensive campaign material from vandalism…

To bad only 10300 people voted for “Die Partei” which was created by the editorial staff of the German satire magazine “Titanic”. I would have loved to seem in coalition talks. Their most important campaign promise was to rebuild the Berlin Wall. I suppose that might have suited at least the frustated Bavarians around Edmund Stoiber to some extent.

Gregor Gysi gets the second price in the category “most blatantly stupid campaign claim” for the line “Left policy deserves to be trusted because it means developing alternatives with the people.” The first price obviously goes to everyone depicted on a poster with the claim “better for the people.”

It’s a well known fact that property is not something people on the economic left have a lot of sympathy for. So it should not be too surprising to see that Oscar Lafontaine has appropriated Victor Hugo’s realisation that there are times when nothing is more powerful than an idea and put it on the poster in a way that looks lke it was his own… by the way, replying “we’re not mad” to his invitation (scribbled on the poster) was probably wrong – to some extent. While not as many people voted for the Linkspartei.PDS, it was still 8.7% (or 4,086,134 people) of Germans, 4.7% up from 4 years ago.